Philippine Consulate General in Seattle
Book first. This consulate takes no walk-ins for anything
The passport booking is national and lives at passport.gov.ph. Everything else goes through whatever system this particular consulate runs, and they differ from one office to the next.
The passport counter admits no proxies and no exceptions by age. Biometrics on site, printing in Manila, six to eight weeks before it reaches you, and no express service anywhere outside the country.
The Philippine Consulate General in Seattle is the newest Philippine consulate in
the United States. It reopened after years in which the Pacific Northwest had no
consulate of its own, and it now serves Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Alaska
from One Convention Place, on Pike Street in downtown Seattle.
Before it reopened, all five states reported to
San Francisco. That is
why so many directories, including some official Philippine pages, still list Alaska
and Washington under San Francisco. They are out of date.
Address, hours and contact details in Seattle
Because the consulate is new, its own website is still being finished: at the time of
writing the header still shows a placeholder phone number, (206) XXX-XXXX, while
the working number published on its contact page is a 925 area code. Use the number in
the box above and email seattle.pcg@dfa.gov.ph if it does not connect.
The practical consequence of the reopening is large. Filipinos in Portland, Boise,
Anchorage and Spokane no longer have to deal with a consulate in another time zone and
a thousand miles away. Alaska also keeps an honorary consulate in
Juneau, which reports to Seattle.
Two booking systems run in parallel here: passports go through the national
passport.gov.ph portal like everywhere else, and everything else is booked through the
consulate's own scheduler.
Which procedures this consulate carries out
Being a career post rather than an honorary one is the distinction that matters here: this office issues passports, takes the oath and notarises, and an honorary consulate does none of the three. In order of how often they are searched:
- Philippine passport renewal in the United States: Ten years for adults, five for minors, printed in Manila and mailed back in six to eight weeks. Why you must appear in person and why nine months’ notice is the real deadline.
- Philippine dual citizenship under RA 9225: For natural-born Filipinos who lost citizenship by naturalising abroad. The oath does not require renouncing your other nationality, and minor children come in as derivatives.
- Special Power of Attorney and consular notarisation: Twenty-five dollars a document, personal appearance required, and the consulate will neither draft your document nor act as your witness.
- Report of Birth and Report of Marriage: How to register a child born in the United States or a marriage celebrated here so that they exist in the Philippine civil registry. Mail-only at most consulates.
- Affidavit of One and the Same Person: The document that fixes a name that does not match between your PSA birth certificate and your US passport. It is what stops most dual citizenship and passport applications.
- Philippine visa and visa-free entry for US travellers: US passport holders enter visa-free for 30 days, balikbayans for a year, and 9(A) visas are now filed online at evisa.gov.ph , not at the consulate counter.
Honorary consulates under this consulate
They cannot issue passports or take the dual citizenship oath, but they are the closest official Philippine contact in their area and the first place to hear about an outreach mission:
- Philippine Honorary Consulate in Juneau, 251 South Franklin Street, Juneau, AK 99801
What you can settle without going to Seattle
Quite a lot, in fact. The three most searched Philippine procedures in the country are handled by other authorities, and turning up here for them is the most common mistake:
- PSA certificates , birth, marriage, death and CENOMAR, are issued by the Philippine Statistics Authority and ordered online. The consulate asks for them; it does not print them.
- Apostilles on American documents come from the Secretary of State of the state that issued them. Since 15 May 2019 the consulate cannot authenticate them.
- NBI clearance is issued by the NBI in the Philippines and applied for by mail. The only consular step is notarising your fingerprint card.
Three things cannot be delegated or posted, because an officer has to see you do them: the biometrics for a passport, taking the oath of allegiance, and signing a power of attorney.
Fees, accepted payment methods and document checklists are on the requirements page, and every procedure has its own guide in the procedures section.
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